Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei has been replaced by co-founder Tom Brown at high-stakes White House meetings, where Amodei was reportedly “being a weirdo” and was difficult to talk to, according to a Wired report. Amodei and other top Anthropic workers raced to Washington after the US government slapped the AI giant’s new “Mythos” and “Fable” bots with strict foreign export controls. “Tom Brown is not being a weirdo like Dario and can actually engage,” one person familiar with the calls told the outlet. In recent days, the Trump administration has had multiple calls with Anthropic and talks are going well since Amodei has been replaced by Brown and Sarah Heck, the company’s public policy chief. Earlier this month, the US government slapped the export controls on the ultra-powerful new AI models, after Amazon CEO Andy Jassy warned the administration that researchers had found evidence it was possible to bypass their safety guardrails. Anthropic responded by pulling the models offline entirely on June 12. The National Security Agency had been testing versions of Anthropic’s AI tools and found that Mythos had identified vulnerabilities in highly secure government systems within mere hours, the Associated Press reported Tuesday. Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick is facing a June 26 deadline from a bipartisan group of lawmakers who last week demanded answers about the path forward.